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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0094-288X
- eISSN
- 1876-3316
- DOI
- 10.1163/187633198X00185
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Abstract
GEORGE G. WEICKHARDT (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) THE COMMERCIAL LAW OF OLD RUSSIA This article presents a brief history and description of the development of commercial law in Kievan Rus', Novgorod and the Muscovite tsardom and assesses its relative sophistication and maturation. The emphasis shall be on loans, credit, collateral and special commercial courts. As a standard of com- parison the commercial law of Western Europe in the same period, the so- called law merchant (iex mercatoria)1 shall be employed: The conclusion will be that while 'pre-Petrine law developed the basic concepts of property and contract necessary to support commercial activity, it failed to develop, or de- veloped much later, most of the sophisticated commercial legal devices devel- _ oped in the law merchant of medieval Western Europe. While the law mer- chant may have been practiced to some extent in Novgorod and Pskov, it had no significant impact on Russian law. For.tbose readers unfamiliar with the subjects of commercial law, a brief introduction is in order. In order to support simple domestic and international trade in agricultural and manufactured goods by way of seaborne and overland carriage, a legal system must at the very least develop legal
Journal
Russian History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1998